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Croatian airports set for record year

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Croatian airports are on course to handle a combined total of over nine million passengers this year, with figures up over 17% so far in 2017. The President of the Air Transport Association at the Croatian Chamber of Economy, Tonči Peović, estimates that annual growth at the country's nine commercial airports will average 10% this year. "The significant rise in passenger numbers at Croatian airports has been influenced by GDP growth in countries that visitors are coming from, as well as numerous other factors, including safety. Travellers want to go on holiday to places where they feel safe", Mr Peović, who is also the General Manager of Brač Airport, said. He added that lower fares resulting from lower fuel prices have also stimulated travel.

During the first half of the year, Croatian airports welcomed a record 3.444.310 passengers through their doors, according to the country's Civil Aviation Agency. The figure represents an increase of 17.7% on the same period in 2016. Almost all managed to attract more travellers than last year with Split being the fastest growing, adding 185.600 passengers during the January - June period. Brač Airport recorded the largest increase in travellers percentage wise. Several airports have given estimates of their end-of-year results, although most will likely be surpassed. Zagreb Airport anticipates welcoming over three million travellers, Split 2.7 million, Dubrovnik two million, Pula 600.000, Zadar 580.000 and Brač 30.000 passengers.

Croatian airports H1 2017

Airport

PAX

Change (%)

Zagreb

1.335.942

▲ 9.0

Split

872.444

▲ 27.1

Dubrovnik

812.553

▲ 20.1

Zadar

206.124

▲ 14.9

Pula

158.736

▲ 37.0

Rijeka

37.930

▲ 2.9

Osijek

10.829

▲ 9.7

Brač

8.610

▲ 168.6

Mali Lošinj

1.133

▼41.5

In order to keep up with the strong growth, a number of Croatian airports have been investing in their infrastructure to increase capacity. In March, Zagreb Airport opened its new terminal building, with Dubrovnik Airport following suit. One of the country's most congested airports, Split, is in the process of building a multi million euro terminal, with the facility expected to be opened to the public in July 2019. Earlier this year, Brač Airport completed work on lengthening its runway from 1.440 metres to 1.760 metres. The 320 metre extension now allows for the island airport to handle larger aircraft such as Fokkers, Airbus A319s and new Bombardier C-series jets. Furthermore, Pula Airport's runway was resurfaced over the winter and its approach lighting extended from 400 to 900 metres. In the coming period, Zadar Airport plans to expand its international departures area. The development will allow it to add capacity but also adapt to Schengen standards. Meanwhile, Dubrovnik has completed tender procedures for the second phase of its major development project, which will include apron expansion, the overhaul of its runway and taxiways, as well as the relocation of the fuel farm and enclosed facilities for maintenance, operations and ground equipment. Valued at 115.2 million euros, the project will enhance the airport's handling capacity to some 3.98 million passengers per year by 2032.

I expect, the effect of Tunisia and Turkey, won't impact Croatia, Greece as much. It might impact Spain and Italy as they're a lot larger markets.

Croatia anticipates 17.5 million tourists this year, and probably safe to assume 20 million in 2018. The current infrastructure in the country wasn't built to deal with that many tourist.

I expect Split, Dubrovnik, Pula, Zadar airport will see above projected growth in coming years, With Split probably heading for 4 million pax in 2020, Dubrovnik above 3.0 million and Zadar and Pula could hit 1.0 million in 2020. Zagreb is all but certain now it'll handle over 5.0 million in 2020.

Number of Germans going to Turkey jumped by 14% this July despite there still being a fall this year. Many who were supposed to go to Tunis, Turkey, Egypt... have decided to go to Croatia, Bulgaria, Spain...

As these market recover the growth in Croatia will stay but at a much lower rate. Probably 5% to 10% per annum.

Absolutely. The growth has been spectacular, let's hope they can keep it up. SPU's growth is amazing and this year they managed to become number one airport in HR even for a while. It only goes to show where the country's true potential is!

Yes and No. ZAG is way too expensive at this moment. Look at some of the other european fares with the same carriers...ZAG is among more expensive ones... French need to bring in more LCCs, there's potential in numbers there...

The only issue with SPU/DBV vs ZAG is that they are active (and that is very active) only limited time of the year and that will not change in near future. ZAG has more chances of stabile year round growth as it has more diversified traffic. Still, great seeing growing numbers!

2020: Likely traffic in 2020, if numbers continued to go at present rate of growth. Dubrovnik and Split would exceed the projected designed capacity of new terminals by 2025. Split is projected at 5.0 million, 3.5 + 1.5 million in current terminal. Dubrovnik was built for 3.5 million pax but actual capacity is around 5.5 million. Zagreb airport has plenty of room for expansion, as terminal will expand in stages, phase 2a/b it'll expand by additional 2 jetways, phase 2c/d terminal will receive additional 6+2 jetways, for total of 16. This is when terminals exceeds 7.3 million pax, projected to happen by 2025, would be as early as 2024.

Very impressive. At the end of the year that will be almost half of all ex-Yugoslavian air traffic. With the other countries registering record numbers as well. Most importantly, this is still only the beginning. There's so much more potential in the entire region. Instead of having just over 20 million, the region could easily be handling between 40 and 50 million passengers in not too distant future.

No there is absolutely no chance. Had you bothered to read the article you would have seen that Pula will handle at least 600,000 passengers and Zadar at least 580,000 this year. In July Pula had almost the same number of passengers Nis had for the whole year. You have to get out of your mindset that Nis is the centre of the universe.

Why are you so bitter when it comes to Nish? Chill.INI will welcome some 320.000 this year and probably some 450.000 next year. In two years from now it will handle more than 500.000 especially since no airport in the region can compete with their cost structure. :)

they have a lot of work there to improve the airside infrastructure.It is a matter of lot of money, too!At the end of the day the location is poor.So the question is if someone plans for 30 years or 10 years.

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